Sound Off for Jan. 26

Liberty and guns? Doesn't anyone care about the "freedom, liberty and the right to pursue happiness" of the 10,000 Americans murdered each and every year or do we only care about our own selfish "liberty"??? Ban automatic weapons!

It seems the time has come for Winsted to have its own Board of Finance. When the interim finance director asks the current combined board of selectmen/board of finance for a sub-comittee to review the accounts payable account on a weekly basis before cutting checks and can get no one able to do so. It seems we need a board dedicated to doing those reviews. They should also develop the requested multi-year strategic finance plan. The Board of Selectmen would seem to have enough to do running the town to have the time and expertise required to effectively review finance department activities on a timely basis. So change the charter and separate the duties into two separate boards, one charged with running the town and one with the charge and expertise to oversee the town finances.

Words such as "turning in weapons" and "confiscation" have been in the news media regarding gun control. Groups have formed such as the Mothers Movement, which vows to press for the seizure by confiscation of weapons not turned in. Quite an agenda with the most important piece missing. Profiling the mass killers and designing an identification, treatment plan, removal to a locked facility if deemed a danger to society and only let out when no longer a danger. Why not? Why mass hysteria?

Both Hitler and Stalin confiscated guns. The citizenry obeyed. I cannot see law-abiding gun owners in this country surrendering their weapons. Then what? Does government send the storm troopers to homes? Think about this.

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Go NRA!! Let's hand out automatic weapons to all Americans. We will all be safer. People will use good judgment when they have road rage, or marital discord or drug rip-offs. We all will use our intellect when our neighbors trespass, or our spouse has an affair, or we disagree with our bosses and coworkers. Criminals have always been known for their good judgment! The Second Amendment protects our rights to pull out those automatic weapons. We don't really need to see or care that Americans kill 10,000 fellow Americans every year, approximately 40 every day. We are very much indeed an ignorant people.

Torrington school board's sick day abuse investigation gets underway. Where are the principals?? If they can't handle or track their subordinates, maybe they (the people in charge) need to be disciplined. Do your job, supervise! Principals, assistants and secretary, department heads, and they can't track who is out sick and when?